You can politely correct my misunderstanding of a situation without being patronizing or assuming my state of mind.
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What, what? That’s our thing! We fought a whole World War about it!
Yeah, but the US lacks the theological side of it – we may have been interested in empire (although except for our “territories” they seem to be more indirect through favorable regimes), but we don’t have a Patriarch or Pope. Americans are statistically more religious than most nations, but they are divided into hundreds of different religions (mostly variants on Protestantism).
[Edit: Unless “we” is Germany and you are talking about the Third Reich. But that’s a different concept. That is not talking about Berlin as a rival to Rome and Constantinople but rather talking about empires, where the second empire isn’t Byzantium but rather the Holy Roman Empire, the loose collection of mostly German-speaking states that Voltaire mocked as being “neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire”]
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Though to be fair, sometimes our oligarchs are in on the planning for the war.
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It’d make a great TV show: Yacht Seize!
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which is highly relevant to the current situation.
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And then moan (can’t use the ‘b’ word) about taxes because they are creating jobs and lifting up the economy for all. In reality they have ungodly amounts of money, create tax laws and regulations to help them keep more money, get free stuff, build up all kinds of monopolies (some of them not really evident - from cheerleading to local ambulance companies), and hiding money across the world. Then, after they have taken as much as possible, buy citizenship to another country to make sure they have some place to hide.
So - I’m all in for making Russian (and other) oligarchs unhappy and less rich
And rant over.
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Another yacht seized.
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“oligarchs are calling for peace”
"I never thought leopards would eat MY face "
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That was in response to the epithet and punctuation, but you’re absolutely right, and I’m sorry. I’ve edited the post.
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Surely there are climate and oceanographic research teams who could use a new vessel and a few billion dollars to cover operating expenses.
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The “ahhh” after he took that swig was priceless. 
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I’m sure there are. And some of these vessels would be very useful for that. See my previous post for my history with superyachts and research vessels.
God, I hate those things!
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The expression on the woman’s face was even more priceless.
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The transcript is also great:
– Jokes aside, let me do this quickly. I’m sending my regards to
Sergey Usichenko who 12, 13 years ago drank for the death of the
stock market. Today I’m drinking soda. Dear stock market, you
were close to us, interesting to us. Rest in peace, dear comrade.
– 0_0
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there’s nothing to “negotiate”. they just need to leave.
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